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verb

Allege v. t. (past & past part. alleged; pres. part. alleging)

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. (Archaic)

To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

Synonyms: To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce; declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.

Allege v. t. To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alleged" Quotes from Famous Books

... we at least possess; and all that is to be alleged against us is that we do not honour it enough. I do not mean honour by acknowledgment of service, though sometimes we are slow in doing even that. But we do not honour it enough in consistent regard to the ...

— The Two Paths • John Ruskin

... abject and uncalled-for surrender, and grovelling unasked in the dust to Brutus and his friends as no straight mate should do for another, dead or alive—and after taking the blood-stained hands of his alleged friend's murderers—got permission to speak. To speak for his own ends or that paltry, selfish thing called "revenge," be it for one's self ...

— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson

... those in authority over her by her precocious propensity for vice, her treacherous and lying disposition, and a lewdness of tongue rare in one of her age and comparative inexperience. At eighteen she returned to her father's house, only to quit it for a lover whom, she alleged, had hypnotised and then seduced her. Gabrielle was singularly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. Her father implored the family doctor to endeavour to persuade her, while in the hypnotic state, to reform her deplorable conduct. The doctor did his best but with no success. He declared ...

— A Book of Remarkable Criminals • H. B. Irving

... conclusion to be drawn, that in the upper waters of the rivers and the inland lakes the salmon do not take the fly or any other bait, nor is there any case in which it has been even alleged that a salmon has ever been caught on the fly. Occasionally large silvery fish have been caught on spoon and minnow, but, in the absence of proof to the contrary, it is most probable that these fish are either large silver trout, rainbow, or steel-heads. Absolute proof of the capture of a salmon ...

— Fishing in British Columbia - With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina • Thomas Wilson Lambert

... therefore, never attempted to ascend the summits, deeming the undertaking perilous, and success impossible. But, though thus cherishing a superstitious respect for their utmost elevations, they still frequented the environs and mountain defiles, and propogated many marvelous stories of what they alleged could there be seen. Among other things, they gave accounts of immense carbuncles seen far up the steep and inaccessible sides, which shone in the darkness of night with the ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 • Various

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